The Lure of the 'White South'

O n Jan. 10, 1915, Thomas Orde-Lees, traveling toward Antarctica on the ship Endurance, confided to his diary that "I do so wish sometimes I could just pop home for an hour or two as easily in the flesh as in the spirit." The Endurance expedition, under the command of Sir Ernest Shackleton, was by this time deep in the pack ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. "I think it is quite probable that...